importing.py

# This is an example of firing up PyMOL inside of a subordinate# process via an "import pymol"# # NOTE: for this to work, PyMOL must be installed in a# Python-dependent fashion (e.g. pymol-0_98-bin-win32-py23) etc.## WARNING: stability issues have been known to occur with this# approach, so anticipate problems...take-down is messy.## WARNING: Right now, there is no way for the main process to know# when PyMOL is actually initialized and ready to go, so we simply# sleep a second after importing.import string
import __main__
# note that passing in a "-z" option would keep the window hidden# until you called pymol.cmd.window("show").
__main__.pymol_argv= string.split("pymol -qxiF -X 300 -Y 100 -H 400 -W 400")
import pymol
# give PyMOL enough time to initialize (we need to find a safe and# robust alternative to this stupid delay especially since the# pymol.finish_launching() method now seems to be broken)import time
time.sleep(1)
# put up some contentif 1:
pymol.cmd.set("sweep_mode",3)
pymol.cmd.rock()
pymol.cmd.turn("x",180)
pymol.cmd.load("$TUT/1hpv.pdb")
pymol.preset.pretty("1hpv")
pymol.cmd.orient()
pymol.cmd.turn("y",85)
pymol.cmd.zoom("all",20)
pymol.cmd.orient("organic & e. N+O",animate=10)
pymol.cmd.show("sticks","organic")
# play peek-a-boo with the windowif 1:
time.sleep(5)
pymol.cmd.window("hide")
print"Peek-a-boo!"
time.sleep(1)
pymol.cmd.window("show")
time.sleep(5)
pymol.cmd.window("hide")
print"Peek-a-boo!"
time.sleep(1)
pymol.cmd.window("show")
time.sleep(5)
pymol.cmd.window("hide")
print"Peek-a-boo!"
time.sleep(1)
pymol.cmd.window("show")
# now quit print"Quitting..."
time.sleep(1)
print"3..."
time.sleep(1)
print"2..."
time.sleep(1)
print"1..."
time.sleep(1)
print"Die!"# note, we cannot let the main thread terminate without first calling# pymol.cmd.quit() which will take-down PyMOL
pymol.cmd.quit()